curmudgeon wrote:
Let's just hope that that democratic Florida supreme court doesn't break
Florida law once again and hand the election to Bush via a Supreme Court
Decision.
Ohhhh! Had you forgotten that part?!?!


"Florida Patriot" wrote in message
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President Jimmy Carter had the following to say (CNN):

Carter, citing the experience of his Carter Center in monitoring
international elections, said "some basic international requirements
for a fair election are missing in Florida."

Most significant, he said, were requirements that a nonpartisan
electoral commission or official organize and conduct the electoral
process and that voting procedures be uniform for all citizens.

He said Florida's top election official in 2000, Secretary of State
Katherine Harris, was "highly partisan" and that Harris' successor,
Glenda Hood, has shown "the same strong bias."

He said Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's brother, had done little to
"correct these departures from principles of fair and equal
treatment."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html



So is President Carter suggesting that the Florida state constitution
needs to be rewritten by the feds? Seriously.
The Secretary of State is an elected position, and elected positions are
are partisan and political. I'm not sure the Governor had much
descretion in the handling of the election -- it was probably an
embarrassing position to be in.

Bob